DOM in XHTML on IE6

[drjones013]

Maybe you can answer a question for me: I'm reading the preview for XML web development (sitepoint book) and it clearly shows IE rendering XML (the author states IE5 and above); does that mean that IE's problem with XHTML is CDATA and not XML universally? If that's true then IE could render an albeit gimped XHTML page which would explain why HTML 4.01 and XHTML are virtually synonymous in IE 6.

Is there a workaround for this in JavaScript, if the above is true?

[7stud]

Huh?

[drjones013]

Guess not then... I'm still trying to find a way to DOM in IE6. I got so excited that IE rendered an XML page that I thought for a second that I could run XHTML as long as I didn't put in a CDATA reference. My bad.

It's getting so frustrating I may just convert over to "semantic" HTML 4.01 and go it from there

[siteguru]

Any help?

[AutisticCuckoo]

Internet Explorer does not support XHTML in any way, shape or form.

It does (partially) support HTML (which includes XHTML served as text/html).
In this case you are using HTML, not XHTML or any other form of XML. All 'bad' aspects of HTML can be used, since it is HTML.

It does 'support' XML (which includes XHTML served as application/xml or text/xml).
In this case you are using generic XML, not XHTML, even with the proper XML namespace. You can used CDATA sections and stuff, but all semantics will be lost. You will also have to provide a style sheet that declares the default styling for all XHTML element types (including display:block for block-level elements).

It does not support XHTML served as application/xhtml+xml.

[drjones013]

Thanks for the clarification, I read the w3 specs and it cleared up a lot of questions for me